Except - like with the car examples above - eventually customers get pissed off or frustrated enough to switch to a different OS (or car manufacturer).
Thus Apple and Linux distro's picking up a lot of ex-windows users. KDE plays well to this audience. :)
I think valve did there part to remove one large reason to stay on windows.
I think if steam decks gets a good linux desktop, similar to windows in look and feel, that can be run on a desktop, parallel to windows. Its over, very suddenly, very brutal.
The executive in charge of that strategy, by then, will have moved on to Google.
Also, likely microsoft has realized there's zero long term revenue in operating systems -- you'll have been forced to move all your data to their Office 365 environment and will be paying them rent regardless of if you use a windows or a mac or a linux or an oracle desktop.
Except - like with the car examples above - eventually customers get pissed off or frustrated enough to switch to a different OS (or car manufacturer).
Thus Apple and Linux distro's picking up a lot of ex-windows users. KDE plays well to this audience. :)